Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Following up on Inch and Sara, Rob, and Michelle. Sarah now let's us know, "What's your favorite workouts for each discipline?"

I'll be honest, I've been ignoring swimming lately - really, really ignoring it. One of my choice workouts when I do get to the pool, though, is a 600 warm-up (200 swim, 200 kick, 200 swim) followed by 10 x 100 at race pace with 20 seconds of rest. Cooldown is a final 200. For biking, one of my favorite workouts is a 20 minute warm-up followed by 3 x 10 minute intervals at half -ironman pace with 5 min recovery between followed by a cool down to total 1:30. For running, hands down my favorite workout is grabbing a friend and going out for 2+ hours. We talk, laugh, and enjoy strengthening our friendship. The fact that we get a great run in while doing it is just an added bonus. I'm always amazed at how fast I actually run with a partner. It’s not uncommon for me to hit paces on a long, slow run that I can’t hit during my attempts at solo tempo paces!